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title: 'If I Had to Start Trading in 2025, I Would Do This'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=AlM2LgzfMEw'
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date: 2026-07-28
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# If I Had to Start Trading in 2025, I Would Do This

> Source: [If I Had to Start Trading in 2025, I Would Do This](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AlM2LgzfMEw)

## Summary

An experienced trader with 7 years and $6M in earnings shares the four key strategies he would focus on if starting trading in 2025: using order blocks instead of support/resistance, concentrating on a single currency pair and time slot, mastering market structure, and following one mentor's philosophy without mixing strategies.

### Key Points

- **Skip support and resistance** [00:13] — Instead of learning support and resistance, start with order blocks because they are more precise and logical, explaining why the market moves.
- **Definition of order block** [01:18] — An order block is the last counter-candle before a strong move, where banks place limit orders, causing a strong reaction when price returns.
- **How to identify order blocks** [01:44] — For a bullish order block, find the last red candle before a strong green move; for bearish, the last green candle before a strong red move. Mark that candle completely.
- **Order blocks are single-use** [03:49] — Once an order block is activated, do not use it again; look for a new one.
- **Focus on one pair and time slot** [06:04] — Trade only one pair (e.g., EUR/USD) and during one session (e.g., New York session 8 AM–12 PM) to reduce anxiety and improve focus.
- **Learn market structure** [09:13] — Understand higher highs (HH), higher lows (HL), lower highs (LH), lower lows (LL). Buy at higher lows, sell at lower highs in a downtrend.
- **Structural transitions** [12:24] — A trend changes from bullish to bearish when price breaks the last higher low; from bearish to bullish when it breaks the last lower high.
- **Follow one mentor's philosophy** [14:52] — Avoid mixing strategies from different mentors. Pick one, commit to it, and test it over a year, as strategies have losing periods.

### Conclusion

By replacing support/resistance with order blocks, focusing on a single pair and time, mastering market structure, and following one mentor, a trader can build a solid foundation for profitability in 2025.

## Transcript

trading do exactly the same thing: they learn the basics and expect to achieve great results with them. But honestly, analyzing my last 7 years of experience and my more than 6 million dollars earned in trading, I
really wouldn't start with the basics. I would start with this: the first thing is that I wouldn't learn support and resistance. The truth is, I wouldn't even start there; I wouldn't even touch on it. It's the most basic part, the part that everyone knows:
support and resistance, floors and ceilings. I would start better with order blocks. It's not that support and resistance don't work, because they really do, but start with something more logical, something that tells me why the market went up and
make my buy order. And if I had to start with order blocks, I would do it this way: the first thing you have to know is that when we use support or resistance, it's like using zones. The law of
support and resistance indicates that when we place one zone and another zone, the objective is for the price to bounce between those zones every  Once it touches, you see the bounce, the bounce here, the bounce here, the bounce here. Support
and resistance are like specific points where the price is expected to reach, and once the price reaches that point, it ends up exerting a certain degree of we take advantage to buy and sell. The law of order
blocks specifies something a little similar, but we go from the beginning to the depth. And that is that the definition of an order block is the last counter-candle find order blocks, we
first have to start looking for strong moves. The word "order block" is a specific point where banks leave limit entries. And if the price reaches that limit entry, it ends up
having a strong reaction. Generally, these specific points are found a lot, and it's very common to find order blocks throughout the chart. I would start with this topic of order blocks because, first, besides
always working, it's always more precise and it's more understandable why that happens specifically within the price. Let's see some examples of how it works. For example, here, look at this. Here is a green candle. These are
red candles. The order block, or the definition of an order block, tells me  The order block is strong move. The strong move opposing candle is a bullish candle. So, I close the entire green candle and
extend it with the goal that when the price returns to that last green candle, it will have this reaction and end up going down or up sharply. This happens a lot. It's the same for the buy area. If it's for the buy line,
we're going to look for the last red candle before the strong bullish move, green movement. So, if we see a strong move, we immediately have to look for the last opposing candle. In this case, we would mark this
red candle that I'm enclosing here because it's the last opposing candle before the strong bullish move occurs. And I extend that, and something like this will happen: once the price reaches this order block or this zone, it will have
this reaction. The goal is for it to have this reaction so that we can project that purchase before it happens because order blocks are zones— not specifically zones, but specific points—where
when the price arrives, it has a certain reaction. It's not a coincidence that seen, and maybe you haven't been able to explain where we see them. I want you to look closely here. Look here. That's the last opposing candle, the last red candle before
the strong upward move. If we mark that last red candle completely, we're going to mark it completely and extend it. Notice that in this part here, once we mark that candle, it
seems to arrive, and the movement is so specific that it makes a or what you can't do with order blocks, is to use them and start placing them indefinitely because the block doesn't work indefinitely.
Once it's activated, as it was in this case, we do n't use it again; instead, we look for another one. It's the same thing that happened here. Look, that's the last opposing candle, a strong movement. We take the little square, mark the last
opposing candle completely, and extend it here, and we observe that once it touches, the price moves strongly. If I were to start learning trading in 2025, I wouldn't focus so much
stick more with order blocks first.  Because it's more precise, second, because it makes more sense, because we know that within order blocks there are limit orders, meaning that
banks and institutions left money here. And if this happened, when banks and institutions left money here, once the price touches it, it should move strongly. The price moves through liquidity. The more money there is in
the market, the more the price will move. That's why if it touches here and there's money, it if it touches here and there's money, it touches and finds good money will move strongly, and that's how
trading works. And if we identify these order blocks and replace them with support and resistance levels, we'll have more valid points. Let's look at another example so that the topic of order blocks is 100% clear. Also, on this
YouTube channel, I have many tutorial videos explaining order blocks, and it's: Remember the last opposing candle, in this case, the green candle before the strong move, is the last opposing candle. This is the strong bearish move. We
mark the strong move or the bearish move by marking the last reach that last point. Once it reaches that point...  Now we can look for our selling opportunity. The objective of the order
block is to function as a resistance indicator, but unlike other methods, we won't use the breakout of the H- blocks. The price isn't used; it doesn't break the order block and then use it on the opposite side. Instead, it simply
works like this: it reaches the right time, it activates, and that's it. That's why I wouldn't literally learn about support and resistance, but would concentrate directly on order blocks. Secondly, I would concentrate on one pair and one time slot, and
this might be completely at odds with most mentors. analyze all pairs, and when you find an entry point in a pair or any financial asset, you take it, and that's it. Personally, in my last
few years, I've only dedicated myself to one pair: I only trade the euro/ dollar. I don't waste my time on any other pair, and I only trade at a specific time. Is this the right way, or is it advisable from my point of view to do it this way?
expert in one thing, we must concentrate on just one thing. Before, I analyzed gold and the index.  I used to analyze the dollar against the thought might have an
every time I analyzed, I would look for an entry point, and if I didn't find one, I would move on to another pair, and another, and another. This meant I had entries in the mornings, afternoons, and evenings, all the time I was
trading. I always had entries, which increased my anxiety level. This made me much sense, also distracted me from my trading. So what I started doing was
organizing myself and reducing the number of pairs I used. I stopped using too many pairs and started focusing on just one pair and one time zone. I started trading the trading every day from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM. During
those short hours, I dedicate myself solely to my trading and my pair, the euro/dollar. This allows me to maintain order and organization, and even though I can work with any pair, I only focus on one. If you're starting out in trading...
2025, or your goal for TR in 2025, is to achieve profitability. The recommendation is that you do this: don't concentrate on 10 currency pairs, or 15, or 20; concentrate on one and on a single time zone. Because most
wanting to trade all day long when they start trading. Trading isn't about open positions, and not being an expert in all pairs. The more time we spend on the chart, the more
opportunities will be created in our minds. How often does it happen that we exist because we spend all day analyzing, analyzing, analyzing, we see opportunities that don't even
time they look good, but then they pass and are lost, we see that it was a mistake and that we shouldn't have taken that entry. To avoid that process of seeing opportunities where they don't exist, we adapt to a
specific strategy, which is a manual fence strategy, tells me when to enter and when to exit.  It tells me everything, so for me it's much easier because I only specific moment when my manual trading strategy presents itself and execute it.
do absolutely nothing because I have nothing to do in the market. That's why my main recommendation, and the second recommendation in this video, is to focus on a single pair and a single trading time. If you ask me for another recommendation, I
recommend the euro/dollar pair and the New York session, the time when the price moves best and where you'll find the most entries with this specific pair. And using order blocks, the third thing is that you should learn
market structure perfectly. It will be highly recommended that you learn indicators like the RSI or moving lines that can tell you where the price is going, but it has been determined and proven thousands of times that
creating algorithms or automated trading systems, but indicators don't work for the average trader in the long run. So I don't recommend learning market structure instead. When we talk about
market structure, we're talking about highs and lows, and you all know that already.  They know it too. I'm going to explain that the market is made up of higher points and lower points. When we talk about
market structure specifically, we're talking about bullish structures, bearish structures, and structural transitions, which are the important points where there are changes in structure from bullish to bearish and from bearish to bullish.
Just to review, we need to know that the high points are called "highs" (and can be written with an " h"), and the low points or low peaks are called "lows." When a high peak is higher than the previous one, we
call it a "higher high," and when a low peak is higher than the previous one, we call it a "higher low." Similarly, if we see previous one, we have a "higher high," and if we see that this low peak is lower than
we see that this low peak is lower than the previous one, we have a "higher low." It's always the same: higher high, higher low, high high, higher low. Unlike bearish structures, we'll see that the high peaks are lower than the
is by comparing this one with the one before it, and that one with the one before that. The same applies here. Here we're going to compare this with the previous one, and we can determine that this one is
lower. This will be called the lower high, or LH. The same goes for the low. We can determine in this case that the low here wouldn't be lower than the previous one, but this one is lower than the previous one. So it's a lower low. That's how you'd
say it in English: lower low, or lower low. So lower highs are the highs that are lower, like this one we'll put here, and lower lows are the lows that are lower, and
lower highs are the highs that are lower. And that's literally how it works. The objective of us identifying the structure is that we have to structure is that we have to establish the rule that I always sell at
establish the rule that I always sell at the lower highs, and I always buy at the higher lows. That's the basic rule. We want to buy low and we want to sell high. The rules of every business, of every trade, and trading
is no exception: we want to buy here, we want to buy here, we want to buy here, we want to sell here, we want to sell here, and we want to perfectly find these buy and sell points is to perfectly identify the structure.
I used to practice this.  A lot when I was starting out, making small drawings like this and beginning to mark bullish and bearish structures, structural changes. Because another important topic is the changes when the
structure is bullish and suddenly starts to fall; there's a transition from bullish to bearish structure. Here, everything is bullish because it's going up; here, everything is bearish because it's going down. The moment there's
a transition from bullish to bearish is when the price passes through the last higher low. In this case, we observe that this is the last higher low it creates, and once the price passes through it, we have the transition here, a
change from bullish to bearish. And for the opposite side, it's the same; the price will change from bearish to bullish when we see that the last lower high is broken. high. Once it passes through that last lower high, there's a transition from bearish
to bullish. And we determine and observe all of this when we begin to understand structural changes. If we combine this with order patterns, we can do so.  Blocks, and with the specific time and pair,
literally just with those three things, our trading in 2025 will completely change. Obviously, there are more things, and there are more things I'm going to teach you, but just with that, your trading in 2025 would improve
a lot. And if we start to see it in the real market, we observe all these points here, and notice that this here is a higher high, it would be hh. This here would be
a higher high, it would be hh. This here would be a higher low, a HL, and so on. We can continue because this is a higher high, it's a high higher than the previous one. Unlike higher high. This is a higher low. This is a higher high. The objective is to
because I know that at the highs and higher lows, I buy, and at the high highs, I sell. And remember this: If we now use this concept we now use this concept and mark this, which would be an order block
at the beginning of this higher low, we can identify why the price reached this point and ended up rising strongly. Because remember that this empty point is like a large bullish candlestick. So here we have the last
contrarian candlestick, a strong movement, and a discount.  Here, until activating the order block, which is a higher-low order, the goal is to combine all these identify the best point to sell or buy. Notice
here that it returned to the order block. And this is a higher-low order. We combine these confirmations and boom! We literally create a bomb with very simple concepts and without complicating our lives. In 2025, as point number four, I would
focus on following a mentor, that mentor's philosophy, and anyone. It doesn't necessarily have to be me because there are thousands of people with different philosophies. But what I don't want you to do is take
then go to another channel and learn something else, then go to another channel and learn something else, completely different concepts. In the end, what it will do is confuse you and not help you. I tell you this because I have had more than 15 mentors and have paid for
more than 15 courses from people costing $2,000 to $3,000 throughout my learning process in 2018.  2019 was a time of significant investment for me, in courses and learning strategies from many mentors. When I started mixing
all those strategies, which came from different backgrounds, different mindsets, and even different methodologies, I ended up with a complete hodgepodge. I literally had a hodgepodge of strategies all mixed together. I didn't know
and I was losing a lot. I was incredibly confused because some recommend combining strategies from different mentors. If you're going to follow someone, follow that person, follow their philosophy, follow their strategy.
if it makes sense and if that strategy suits you. Because the last thing I want is for you to start combining a lot of strategies in 2025 and get confused confused, applying thousands of strategies that I didn't fully understand,
worked perfectly. All strategies are profitable, and I've been able to determine any strategy, a person with a profit mindset can achieve difference is...  The methodologies are different and sometimes contradictory,
my methodology and then someone else's and start combining them. In the end, those methodologies will probably contradict each other and not give you a YouTube; there are many mentors. If you find
style, the mindset you want, the results you want, who explains things clearly and makes sense, that could be me, or anyone else. But obviously, the one thing I don't
strategies because if you do, you won't get results in 2025. Choose just one mentor. Because if I had to start trading again, I would choose one mentor, commit to that mentor's strategy, and test it until the end.
not work in a week or two, but the important thing is that they work throughout the year. Sometimes we try strategies for two weeks and think wanted, they don't work. But the strategy does work, but there are periods of time during
the year when they don't work as well.  I've had some weeks that were negative, but overall, for the year as a whole, I've been able to achieve positive results. So, the goal here, my dear friends, is for
you to choose a mentor with a strategy and apply all the concepts I with order blocks; don't use support and resistance levels. Learn structure perfectly because it will help you understand...  Where to buy and where to
sell: use only one pair and one timeframe, and always adapt to that pair and that timeframe. And finally, only choose one mentor. Follow a mentor's philosophy to the end and apply all of their concepts until you can't anymore, until you
profitable, no matter what, and I'm going to make it profitable with my mindset." 2025 is a year of high expectations, and many have huge goals and dreams they want to achieve with trading. And that's totally possible, and many people
only be possible if you start off on the right foot. With nothing more to say, if you like this type of content, let me know in the comments, and I'll content, let me know in the comments, and I'll see you in the next video.